Strangest question ever from a stranger

[rjbuzzclick]

Elderly Gentleman: Is that for a telescope?
Me (with tripod): No, it's for a camera.
EG: This parking lot would be a good spot for that, a clear view.
Me: Yes it would.
EG: I don't want to brag or nothing, but I once saw a spaceship take off from the back side of the moon. It just shot right off of there.
Me: Uh...wow...

 

[Doug]

I carry my M240 in to see the doctor rather than leave it in the car.
After the checkup, he asks, "What's with the antique camera?"

One time going into the post office, there was a guy at a table outside collecting signatures for a petition. He was interested in my Pentax 6x7, asked if it was like a Hasselblad. He said he had a photo project too, snapping BigFoot. He'd met Sasquatches four times in the woods and said some spoke two languages, Indian and English, sometimes they just communed with eye contact and gestures.

 

[De_Corday]

"Isn't film kind of... passé?"
-Port Authority police officer after I told him I couldn't delete a photo on my F3, because apparently it's illegal to shoot on the PATH train.

 

[thawkins]

I always enjoy going out with my M3 due to the highly entertaining questions and comments from the great unwashed. Many of the remarks are the same as listed by others. My best one had to do with evening photography at an outdoor concert in Dallas. A self important know it all let me know that my flash was not flashing. I replied that I was not using one. She replied "Why not"? Instead of giving a good answer, I decided to play along with her ignorance and replied that my camera was loaded with megapixels from the Australian megapixel mine and not the one in Siberia and a flash was not needed. She replied, "Oh , OK, that makes sense" and turned and walked away. I laughed so hard, I couldn't take pictures for a number of minutes.

 

[Steve Bellayr]

Where's the screen?

 

[Lauffray]

Something I never suspected to cause confusion for other people is the distinction between developing and printing. I guess for most people, a darkroom is a place with a red light where you turn your film into 4x6 prints.

I often have to explain that first I have to develop then if I want prints, I have to print (or scan)

 

[Lauffray]

My fave of the last year was a Cuban police captain who had confiscated my 35mm film wanting to know if he could unroll the film and see the photos I had taken. Fortunately I had changed rolls while in the police station and what he actually had was a new blank roll.

Brilliant !

 

[MRohlfing]

A lady looking at the screen of my Rolleiflex: "Wow, it's color!"

 

[oftheherd]

I always enjoy going out with my M3 due to the highly entertaining questions and comments from the great unwashed. Many of the remarks are the same as listed by others. My best one had to do with evening photography at an outdoor concert in Dallas. A self important know it all let me know that my flash was not flashing. I replied that I was not using one. She replied "Why not"? Instead of giving a good answer, I decided to play along with her ignorance and replied that my camera was loaded with megapixels from the Australian megapixel mine and not the one in Siberia and a flash was not needed. She replied, "Oh , OK, that makes sense" and turned and walked away. I laughed so hard, I couldn't take pictures for a number of minutes.

Priceless!

 

[angelog]

The reason I don't travel with a film camera any more is that the last time I brought along a film camera I asked to have my camera and film hand inspected.

The TSA agent asked "what is film?".

Fortunately his supervisor was a little bit older and was able to tell him about the old days.